From 0 to ZK Concept Bites #7#: Verifiable Provenance Last time we covered the redundancy problem, how Ethereum's "everyone verifies everything" model creates the bottleneck that real-time proving solves. This time, a different ZK property: provenance. 🛡️ Provenance is the ability to prove where something came from and what happened to it along the way. The clearest live example is Brevis Vera. Modern flagship cameras (Sony, Leica, Nikon, Canon) ship with C2PA, a standard that cryptographically signs every photo at the moment of capture. The image carries a verifiable record of which device produced it. Any edit afterwards breaks that signature. Vera fixes the break. Each edit between capture and publication runs inside Pico zkVM, which generates a proof that the edit was legitimate. The result is an unbroken chain from camera sensor to whatever image you're looking at. Provenance shows up beyond images too. Anywhere you need a verifiable chain of custody, this is the property doing the work. We just added a section on this to Part 4 of the refreshed From 0 Knowledge to Zero Knowledge series. Dive deeper there 👇

30M is next. zkVerify has now verified over 29.4M proofs on mainnet. Each proof is a signal that verification demand is real, live, and growing. The next era of zk needs infrastructure built for scale. That is what zkVerify is here for.

The 2nd batch of ZKC tokens from the Boundless public sale will be unlocked and ready to claim on March 15th, 14:00 UTC. If you have yet to add your wallet to claim to, just need to head to the "My Portfolio" tab, and click "Add Wallet" for the Boundless sale. Upon the unlock time, you can head to the claim site to use that same wallet. Add wallet here:

𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗫 𝗦𝗣𝗔𝗖𝗘: 𝗭𝗞𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗙𝗬 🤝 𝗚𝗟𝗬𝗣𝗛 @getglyph, a @thriveprotocol Program grant recipient building a privacy-first identity layer for real Web3 growth, joins us to unpack how GLYPH’s UnifiedID enables cross-chain identity without data leaks, and how zkVerify powers private, scalable verification behind identity and analytics use cases. If you care about privacy-preserving identity, real proof traffic, and turning verification into growth, this one’s for you. 🎧 RSVP: